Vocabulary
Amount of Earth’s water that is freshwater:
3%
This climate has an average temperature below zero.
Polar Tundra
Air masses that form over land tend to be
Drier
Something from Earth that living things use
Natural Resources
Smog is mostly found in
Urban Areas
The development of land for houses and buildings near a city
Urbanization
This climate experiences all 4 seasons
Mild
Air masses that form over water tend to be
Humid
makes up the majority of Earth’s freshwater.
groundwater
Largest cause of ocean pollution
Land Runoff
Large body of air that has uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure
Air Mass
This climate has the greatest variety of vegetation and wildlife.
Tropical
The boundary between two air masses
Fronts
Careful use of Earth’s materials is called
Conservation
Green spaces provide recreation for:
Humans/People
Cutting large areas of forests for human activities:
Deforestation
These climates do not have a large variety of vegetation
Polar Tundra, Desert
Low rainfall area on the downwind side of a mountain
Rain Shadows
An amount of rainforest equal to this state is cut down each year:
Louisiana
Greenhouse ________ absorb Earth’s outgoing radiation.
Gasses
The process of restoring land disturbed by mining:
Reclamation
These climates are found near the Equator.
Tropical and Desert
Latitude affects the _______________ of an air mass.
Temperature
a mixture of liquid particles and solid particles
Particulate matter
This helps replace groundwater:
Precipitation